Cuora mouhotii

Taxonomy

Assessment Information

Geographic Range

Habitat and Ecology

Bibliography

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Taxonomy [top]

Kingdom	Phylum	Class	Order	Family
ANIMALIA	CHORDATA	REPTILIA	TESTUDINES	GEOEMYDIDAE

Scientific Name:

Cuora mouhotii

Species Authority:

(Gray, 1862)

Common Name/s:

English

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Jagged-shelled Turtle, Keel-backed Terrapin, Keeled Box Turtle

Synonym/s:

Cyclemys mouhotii Gray, 1862

Pyxidea mouhotii (Gray, 1862)

Taxonomic Notes:

Includes subspecies: C. m. mouhotii (Gray, 1862) and C. m. obsti (Fritz, Andreas & Lehr, 1998). Is sometimes treated under the genus Pyxidea.

Assessment Information [top]

Red List Category & Criteria:	Endangered A1d+2d ver 2.3
Year Published:	2000
Annotations:	Needs updating
Assessor/s:	Asian Turtle Trade Working Group
Reviewer/s:	Buhlmann, K., Rhodin, A. & van Dijk, P.P. (Tortoise & Freshwater Turtle Red List Authority)
Contributor/s:

Geographic Range [top]

Countries:	Native: China; India; Lao People's Democratic Republic; Myanmar; Viet Nam
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Habitat and Ecology [top]

Systems:	Terrestrial; Freshwater

Systems:

Terrestrial; Freshwater

Bibliography [top]

	Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.

Hilton-Taylor, C. 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.

IUCN/SSC Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group and Asian Turtle Trade Working Group. 2000. Changes to 1996 IUCN Red List Status of Asian Turtle Species. In: P.P. van Dijk, B.L. Stuart and A.G.J. Rhodin (eds). Asian Turtle Trade: Proceedings of a Workshop on Conservation and Trade of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises in Asia, pp.156-164. Chelonian Research Monographs 2. Chelonian Research Foundation, Lunenburg, Massachusetts, USA.

Citation:	Asian Turtle Trade Working Group 2000. Cuora mouhotii. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 23 May 2013.
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